The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-01-19
MEN WHO WORK H4RB.
Dissipation OF n DelnsIon Regarding tle
HALLWAY Mail service:

Dissipation OF n Delusion Regarding tlle
Hallway Nail Service.
Did you ever notice the United States
Mail wagon en- route TO the postoffice
from the Northern Pacific train from the
west. If so you have doubtless observed
n railway postal clerk citing jauntily
beside the driver and have perhaps en-
We'd him for his easy work, his opportu-
nifty to see the country and his 81, 900 a
year salary. IL so, don't be enyious
again. No ten men in st. Panl work as
hard or as many hours or begin to know
as they do what it is TO be thoroughly
exhausted and worn outs" There at6
Lounsberry and Tennis and Yost and
Brown, and they are all numbered among
the most efficient railway mail clerks in
the country, but no man who values his
health and his happiness and his free
dom will ever seek influence 10 secure
their official scalps.
The man who would succeed them
must work six months for $S00and conn
NIT to memory every postoffic6 in Min.
nesota, Dakota, Montana, Iowa, Wiscpn-
sin, Wyoming and portions OF other
territories and states-~thousands in num-
ber. New offices are constantly being
added. old ones are being discontinued,
new time tablys go into effect and the
lesson is never learned. II you think
you work hard let me tell you of the
work that the above named men do.
After studying night and day for six
months to pass an examination they arc
ready to take run. If they go west
Monday they must so to the postoffice
as early as noon and register md receipt
for registered letters and pouches. They
then go to their postal car on the side
track and work four long hours piling in
consecutive order tons and tons of heavy
letter and paper mail. About o'clock
the train starts west and from the mo-
ment it leaves the Union depot until 1t
arrives in Bismarck. Ddk.; twenty-four
and half hours after THE work is COM
menced in the car, the clerk is on his
feet working with might and main.
There is not moment to sit down,
sleep or cat, except hnsty cold lunch
from n dinner pail. Mail must be put off
and takeb ON at etery station night and
day. even where the train does not stop.
The distribution of the mail tires the
mind. The swaying and iolting of the
car tires the legs. The lifting of the
sacks containing tons OF paper and pub
lie documents tires every muscle In tho
body. The work cannot be ne0leefasi-
SICK or well, dead or alive, the work
mast be pushed, as d certain amount Is
absolutely required 10 be performed
Every error is checked and sent TO de-
partment headquarters at Washington.
Valuable packages must be rcceipted for
and kept under lock and key. Even
when Bismarck is reached the work is
not complete until the mail is delivered
to Postmaster Slnttery, and the regis
tered packages are checked off and re-
ceipted for. After twenty-seTen hours
of continuous work there are twenty
four hours for rest, and then the same
hard work must be repeated on the re-
turn trip. Whenever you see Northern
Pacific postal clerk on a mail wagon. If
you have an endorsement for presenta-
ton to Postmaster General Villas use it
TO kindlc a fire with. If you do you will
have future cause to be thankful.